Gibbus
| Gibbus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Subfamily: | Orthogibbinae |
| Genus: | † Gibbus Montfort, 1810[1] |
Gibbus is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]
Distribution
The genus Gibbus was endemic to Mauritius and it is now extinct.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Gibbus include:
- † Gibbus lyonetianus Pallas, 1780
References
- ↑ Montfort (1810). Conch. 2: 302.
- 1 2 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
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